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Chapter 39 Herbal Medicine
The hunting party returned to the cave at last.

The people of the tribe saw a beehive almost half the size of a person at a glance. There are pikas and birds every day, but it is rare to bring back a beehive in a year, and it is such a big one. Everyone was overjoyed and surprised. Tongue asked about the passing, and asked the men if they were injured.

The men were more excited than Zhang Tian. You said something to each other, coupled with rich expressions and body language, vividly interpreting Zhang Tian's process of smoking bees.

Come back every day to share what you have learned today, which is also one of the regular entertainment activities in the tribe.

As for whether they were injured or not, in the absence of protection, it is inevitable to get stung a few times, but primitive people have rough skin and thick flesh, and a few stings are like mosquito bites. The men don't care, only saying that the bees smell the smoke, He ran away with the tail thorn in his arms, so how could he care about stinging people?

Listening to the bragging of the men, the women laughed and took out the honeycomb from the hive, squeezed out the honey inside with their hands, and filled five large bamboo tubes with thick honey.

The children looked around eagerly, smacking their mouths from time to time, looking salivating.

When the mothers saw this, they licked the honey left on their hands for the children, and took out a small piece of honeycomb for the children to eat.

Beehives are infiltrated by honey, bee pollen, beeswax, propolis, bee cocoons and other substances all year round. The nutritional value is also very high, and it is not easy to deteriorate. It is best to save it for winter.

Beeswax is a very good fire-igniting material, and it burns slowly, so it can be made into candles. If it is rainy and difficult to start a fire during the migration, beeswax will come in handy.

Under Zhang Tian's instructions, the clansman dismantled the entire hive into many treasures and stored them for future use.

After a day of drying, the isinglass made the day before yesterday was dry enough. Zhang Tian put them in a bamboo tube and put them in a cool place. When he needed to use them, he just took them out and boiled them with water.

The bear tendon is also hardened, and it will be about the same after another day in the sun tomorrow.

After tidying up the bear tendons and maw, Zhang Tian walked naturally to the group of women, put the notepad at Lin Yu's feet without showing any trace, then sat down to choose vegetables, and chatted with his sisters and aunts. .

Most of the plants collected today are non-toxic and edible that have been verified yesterday, and some of them are fresh. Of course, Zhang Tian knows many of them. I don't understand what it's for.

These fresh things were all packed in Lin Yu's bamboo basket, and she handled them alone and tried them first.

It's still the same reason, before confirming that it is non-toxic and harmless, women will not cook uneaten food for the clansmen to eat.

Lin Yu put the notebook into his pocket and continued to work.

The plants she collected today are mainly medicinal materials. In this era without antibiotics and vaccines, herbal medicine is the only thing that can cure diseases and save lives. Its importance is self-evident, and it should be stored early for emergencies.

Exactly when humans learned to use plants to treat diseases, the archaeological community is still inconclusive. We only know that medicinal herbs have been an indispensable part of human society since the day there were written records.

Shennong tasted all kinds of herbs. When Zhang Tian told this story, he focused on finding food, but in fact Shennong wanted to explore the pharmacological properties of various plants, so later generations honored Shennong as the god of medicine, not the god of food.

The history of herbal medicine in our country is beyond the reach of all other countries in terms of background and culture. When Lin Yu was studying botany, she knew more or less. It will only make you laugh, but in this era, she is enough to stand out from the crowd.

Maybe only Zhang Tian can compare with me?
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but look up at him, and found that he was also observing her curiously, with a somewhat puzzled expression, obviously not very clear.

She couldn't help feeling a little proud.

The men dissected the beasts and fish, and cooked the excess food and hung it over the fire to smoke it.

The fish maw is still boiled and smashed to form a glue. The glue is not too much. The leftover after making the bow can be used to glue stone spears, stone axes and other tools for reinforcement.

Aunts such as safflower and maple leaf are good at sewing clothes. The bear skin washed the day before yesterday has been dried and baked. Sterilizes fur and enhances fragrance.

The women called Xiao and Tian to tailor the clothes. They hugged the thick and warm bear fur and sniffed the faint fragrance from the fur. They couldn't put it down.

Lin Yu was very envious of this. She had been wearing this outfit for more than a week, and she relied on her homemade "perfume" to cover up the smell, otherwise she would have fallen into the same slovenly situation as wild people.

But she just managed to maintain the glamor on the surface, and the inside of the clothes had already smelled bad. Now that she opened the collar, she could smell the strong smell of sweat, and her whole body was itchy.

Her biggest wish now is to take a comfortable hot bath and change into clean and comfortable clothes, but she can only think about it, not to mention that there is no such condition now-tell her to take a bath in public like a savage, she She absolutely dare not—even if a bathroom is built, she has no clothes to change!
Dazhang's animal skins are scarce, and she, an outsider, can't get it anyway.

She could only dip a small piece of animal skin into her homemade cleaning juice when no one was around, and lift up her clothes to secretly wipe her body.

Fortunately, few people in the field of archaeology like to be clean, especially scholars like her who have been devoted to field archaeology for a long time. Go, dirty people.

As long as the body doesn't itch, it stinks. If they are reduced to eating and living with savages, who will smell the fragrance?

To her relief, the wildlings returned her shoes and socks yesterday, and she sewed a pair of socks out of mouse skin for a change.

It is no exaggeration to say that her feet are cleaner than her face now.

"Can you give me some more animal skins? I want rabbit skins..."

She gestured to her mother.

After these few days of observation, she already has a general understanding of the operation mechanism of this primitive tribe. Outsiders like her, it is best to get the approval of Grandma before doing anything, otherwise it will be easily regarded as rude or even offensive .

Grandma smiled and nodded in agreement.

Lin Yu took the rabbit skin and asked Zhang Tian for scissors. After cutting, wash it with hot water and soap, and bake it by the fire.

She is going to sew a set of underwear.

She doesn’t need to change her coat and her underwear. She is afraid that after a long time, she will develop skin diseases or gynecological diseases. With her limited pharmacological knowledge, she can’t treat such intractable diseases. Keeping clean and hygienic is the simplest and most effective way.

(End of this chapter)